New agritech innovations in vertical farming and indoor ag need to be integrated into existing agricultural operations, establishing a hybrid system.
Speakers at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con offered the indoor farming industry insights, predictions and some major reality checks about the future.
The partnership’s initial transaction will be for a multi-farm facility in Virginia where Plenty and Driscoll’s will grow strawberries.
For many startups, the challenge isn’t getting a first round of funding; it’s getting the kind of funding that can truly propel growth.
Agtech startup FarmWise gets a new CEO, Cargill sees a CFO shuffle, and Beyond Meat saays good-bye to its longtime branding executive.
Other recent distress signals suggest the big priority for vertical farming company Kalera in 2023 is about surviving rather than scaling.
As many in the vertical farming industry struggle, tech companies, growers and academics weigh in on what must happen next in order to progress.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
The company will shift all production to its Compton, California facility, thought it will continue to have a retail presence in the Bay Area.
Stalling progress and slumping valuations might feel disappointing to many. Heck, these are challenging times. But this could be the best year yet to invest in agrifoodtech.
AFN’s most-read guest articles of the year debated the future of CEA, analyzed (a complete lack of) plant-based meat branding and more.
Pink Farms aims to provide some or possibly all of its vertical farming technology to the grain and fiber production in the next 10 years.
No farmers. No food. No future. That is the saying that reminds us to value not just where our food comes from, but the farmers that grow it for us, writes Henry Gordon-Smith as an introduction to deep research his team has done into labor shortage in the Middle East.
From space bakeries to bioreactors, here’s what excites Urban Crop Solutions’ founder Maarten Vandecruys about controlled environment agriculture.
War and supply chain issues make indoor wheat an attractive concept. Can the vertical farming industry manage to grow that crop at scale?
Employees say every part of the indoor farm robotics company was impacted, from engineering to learning and talent to the robotics team itself.
As rural producers in North-West Europe look to add controlled environment agriculture to their farms, there’s a compelling case for more greenhouses.
Neruva Technologies is a Kenyan-based startup that’s leveraging indoor farming to simplify agriculture and bring food production to urban markets.
The indoor farming company aims to make its greenhouse-grown leafy greens and herbs available to 90% of US consumers in the near future.
When news hit about Oman’s central investment agency Oman Investment Authority partnering with a foodtech company – MycoTechnology – on protein supply, it was worth taking a closer look.
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